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...this new release, Young reaps the benefits of his metamorphisis through musical styles. Starting with elemental Buffalo Springfield folk and country ballads like in Harvest, he moved to experiments with rougher edges, like on the garage-band style Ragged Glory. In Harvest Moon, Young returns to his folk-country roots, telling simple stories with unadorned acoustic guitar...
...cemeteries. The Yangshao buried goods with their dead, indicating a belief in the afterlife, but the homogeneity of the buried objects suggests that social classes had not yet appeared. Like the other principal culture of that region and time, known as the Longshan, the Yangshao kept pigs, sheep, chicken, buffalo and oxen, and used finely crafted tools made from stone, bone and wood...
Boston has plenty of bands with this vision, but Buffalo Tom, who appeared last week at Avalon, is among the best. With simple, irrestible rhythms and vocals pleading raspily for lost love, the band's universal sound drew together traditional city rivals into the mosh pit--frat boys bent on dancing to anything with a hard beat, and the flannel-and-nose-ring crowd, fiercely attentive to every inflection in singer Bill Janovitz's songs...
...Buffalo Tom's music, for those who haven't heard their college-rock hit "Velvet Roof," is meat and potatoes for the mosh-starved. You'll think that you might have heard their music before, and you probably have--they sound like blisteringly-loud late Replacements, filled out with plenty of requisite feedback. There isn't much new about Buffalo Tom, but their grasp of what's old makes for nothing less than perfect grunge...
...started while at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Often dubbed "Dinosaur Jr. Jr.," the band grew under the tutelage of J. Mascis, a fellow UMass alum and backbone of Dinosaur Jr. The bands' sounds aren't too far apart, but with a few more years under their belt, Buffalo Tom may develop the sound in their own right. They have, at least, spread beyond college-rock listeners and have started to attract anyone, even violent, drunken old men, to the mosh...